Busy Albert

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 6

Busy Albert

IT is by no means uncommon to find men, who at their offices are ap-

parently mere human automatons, seemingly blissfully oblivious of aught else save the pursuit of their means of earning their bread and butter and the wherewithal to buy an occasional smoke, and generally justifying their existence m this world of woe and worry, at home' assume a totally different role and become metamorphosed into being carefree, jolly and with an entirely different objet' d'etre.

Such a person is Alfred Hyde Cockayne, whose business m life is to control the destinies of the Fields Division .of the Agricultural Department, and %ho recently added the directorship of the newly-established plant research station to his already substantial burden. •

Bearding the lion m his business den, the visitor is bewildered with an impromptu discourse on the general development of progressive farming, farm practices and the top-dressing of grass lands, and is surprised at the appellations attached to the numerous weeds against which the farmer wages war.

At home, however, his chief delight and exercise is the mowing of his lawns, and after the fall of darkness he is to he found taking Gown some of his friends at billiards, at which lte is quite an adept. An omnivorous reader of the classics, Cockayne nevertheless has more than a sneaking regard for a good mystery yarn and enjoys going to the movies to see a good picture.